A common sleep disorder where the sleeping person stops breathing for a brief period is known as:

A) insomnia.
B) sleep apnea.
C) somnambulism.
D) sleep paralysis.


B) sleep apnea.

Psychology

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a. dependent, anxious, unstable b. psychotic, delusional, schizoid c. deceitful, intelligent, unreliable d. confused sexual identity, guilt-ridden, impotent

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In adolescence,

a. white matter declines steadily. b. gray matter thins. c. white matter disappears altogether. d. gray matter grows steadily in volume.

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One explanation for the difficulty that people with amygdala damage have with recognizing fearful faces is that they ____

a. cannot see very well b. do not remember what fear looks like c. focus their attention on the eyes of faces instead of the nose and mouth d. focus their attention on the nose and mouth of faces instead of the eyes

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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. The encoding specificity principle states that retrieval cues which induce novel cognitive states are especially powerful at evoking memory retrieval 2. Predictions based on state-dependent retrieval state that, if you are emotionally upset when studying for a test, you will remember the material even better if you are in a good mood on the test day 3. Repeatedly retrieving a piece of information from memory produces roughly the same effects on long-term recall as studying the information repeatedly 4. Retrieval of a memory may promote forgetting a related memory 5. The more times a memory is retrieved, the more accurate it becomes

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